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Manchester Galleries

Theres some great work Im missing in Manchester, Uk at the moment, try and get to the Whitworth art Gallery to see ‘Spinning a Yarn’ by Val Murray & the TEA collective, as well as my MA Fine Art tutor Lubainia Himid’s new work at the City art gallery.

Spinning A Yarn

Until April 2011

The production and consumption of cotton is woven into the fabric of Manchester and Lancashire’s built environment. Cotton mills, factories and textile warehouses once dominated the landscape. After the Second World War, however, the cotton industry in North West England declined and in recent years former mill buildings and textile warehouses that escaped demolition have become upmarket homes. The layered identities of these places are the starting point for Spinning A Yarn.

Spinning A Yarn is an intervention by Tea (artists Peter Hatton, Val Murray and Lynn Pilling) in three Manchester buildings associated with cotton: Royal Mills, once a cotton spinning mill, has been converted into apartments; Platt Hall is a Georgian mansion that was once the home of a wealthy textile merchant but is now a museum of costume; and the Whitworth Art Gallery houses textile collections that include cotton from all over the world.